[internetworkers] SQL Help?

Scott Russell catfather at donpoo.net
Mon Feb 25 18:47:12 EST 2008


On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:41 -0500, Ilan Volow wrote:
> I'm a PostgreSQL guy, so take my educated guess with a grain of salt,
> but you might want to try this just to see if it works:

Much appreciated. I'll take a look at it...

> 
> If you haven't already thought about it, this kind of statement might
> be a good candidate for a database view.

I'm starting to consider that. I haven't used views before but from what
I can tell they're basically a new table description with pointers back
to an existing table(s).

I'm afraid though that there might be a limitation in MySQL 5.0 with
views and SUM(). The word on the street is that any kind of functions 
inside your MySQL 5.0 view is a performance killer.

Of course, this doesn't apply to other DBs

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Scott <catfather at donpoo.net>
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